I didn’t realize my last blog was as long ago as it was, so
here I am updating what I have been doing for the past month.
To begin, I will say that I took the residency mentoring
preconference course offered at CSM and
found the whole course and information to be very, very helpful. I was able to
gather several resources to assist with our program and I was able to gain
great insight into different ways to format mentoring hours and how to best
structure and incorporate these into the program. I have since decided to
change around some of what I pictured a resident’s day and mentoring sessions
to look like and will continue to reference my materials gathered from the
course to further help develop the mentoring aspect of our residency.
As far as the credentialing document is concerned, I am
still transferring some information from the old template to the new, 2013 form. I have been
spending some time on curriculum development and determining resident
expectations for all of his/her experiences. The document is coming along quite
well for the moment and we are accepting applications for the current residency
position and hope to have some great candidates in the near future.